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Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on class activation maps (CAMs) for pseudo labels generation. As CAMs only highlight the most discriminative regions of objects, the generated pseudo labels are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Weixuan Sun , Jing Zhang , Nick Barnes

Recent advances in semantic image segmentation have mostly been achieved by training deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). We show how to improve semantic segmentation through the use of contextual information; specifically, we explore…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen , Anton van dan Hengel , Ian Reid

Semantic segmentation is a challenging task in the absence of densely labelled data. Only relying on class activation maps (CAM) with image-level labels provides deficient segmentation supervision. Prior works thus consider pre-trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Lian Xu , Wanli Ouyang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Farid Boussaid , Ferdous Sohel , Dan Xu

Weakly supervised object localization aims to find a target object region in a given image with only weak supervision, such as image-level labels. Most existing methods use a class activation map (CAM) to generate a localization map;…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Eunji Kim , Siwon Kim , Jungbeom Lee , Hyunwoo Kim , Sungroh Yoon

The explosive growth of digital images and the widespread availability of image editing tools have made image manipulation detection an increasingly critical challenge. Current deep learning-based manipulation detection methods excel in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Ziyong Wang , Charith Abhayaratne

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation produces pixel-level localization from class labels; however, a classifier trained on such labels is likely to focus on a small discriminative region of the target object. We interpret this phenomenon…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Jungbeom Lee , Jooyoung Choi , Jisoo Mok , Sungroh Yoon

Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) addresses the challenge of training segmentation models using only image-level annotations. Existing WSSS methods struggle with precise object boundary localization and focus only on the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Ali Torabi , Sanjog Gaihre , MD Mahbubur Rahman , Yaqoob Majeed

Semantic image segmentation is one of the most challenged tasks in computer vision. In this paper, we propose a highly fused convolutional network, which consists of three parts: feature downsampling, combined feature upsampling and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Tao Yang , Yan Wu , Junqiao Zhao , Linting Guan

Currently, existing efforts in Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have predominantly focused on enhancing the multi-label classification network stage, with limited attention given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Jia Zhang , Bo Peng , Xi Wu

Autonomous robotic systems applied to new domains require an abundance of expensive, pixel-level dense labels to train robust semantic segmentation models under full supervision. This study proposes a model-agnostic Depth Edge Alignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Patrick Schmidt , Vasileios Belagiannis , Lazaros Nalpantidis

This work presents a novel approach for semi-supervised semantic segmentation. The key element of this approach is our contrastive learning module that enforces the segmentation network to yield similar pixel-level feature representations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Inigo Alonso , Alberto Sabater , David Ferstl , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

Extracting class activation maps (CAM) from a classification model often results in poor coverage on foreground objects, i.e., only the discriminative region (e.g., the "head" of "sheep") is recognized and the rest (e.g., the "leg" of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Zhaozheng Chen , Qianru Sun

Ultrasound imaging plays a critical role in the early detection of breast cancer. Accurate identification and segmentation of lesions are essential steps in clinical practice, requiring methods to assist physicians in lesion segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Xin Yue , Xiaoling Liu , Qing Zhao , Jianqiang Li , Changwei Song , Suqin Liu , Zhikai Yang , Guanghui Fu

We propose an approach for learning category-level semantic segmentation purely from image-level classification tags indicating presence of categories. It exploits localization cues that emerge from training classification-tasked…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Mohammadreza Mostajabi , Nicholas Kolkin , Gregory Shakhnarovich

Weakly supervised point cloud semantic segmentation methods that require 1\% or fewer labels, hoping to realize almost the same performance as fully supervised approaches, which recently, have attracted extensive research attention. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Tianfang Sun , Zhizhong Zhang , Xin Tan , Yanyun Qu , Yuan Xie , Lizhuang Ma

Fine-grained object categorization aims for distinguishing objects of subordinate categories that belong to the same entry-level object category. The task is challenging due to the facts that (1) training images with ground-truth labels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Yabin Zhang , Kui Jia , Zhixin Wang

Most existing weakly supervised localization (WSL) approaches learn detectors by finding positive bounding boxes based on features learned with image-level supervision. However, those features do not contain spatial location related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-02 Zequn Jie , Yunchao Wei , Xiaojie Jin , Jiashi Feng , Wei Liu

Weakly supervised object detection has recently received much attention, since it only requires image-level labels instead of the bounding-box labels consumed in strongly supervised learning. Nevertheless, the save in labeling expense is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Jiajie Wang , Jiangchao Yao , Ya Zhang , Rui Zhang

This work proposes a novel approach beyond supervised learning for effective pathological image analysis, addressing the challenge of limited robust labeled data. Pathological diagnosis of diseases like cancer has conventionally relied on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Joonhyeon Song , Seohwan Yun , Seongho Yoon , Joohyeok Kim , Sangmin Lee

Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) aims to train segmentation models using image data with only image-level supervision. Since precise pixel-level annotations are not accessible, existing methods typically focus on producing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Ci-Siang Lin , Chien-Yi Wang , Yu-Chiang Frank Wang , Min-Hung Chen